US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on May 6 for "Organically modified chalcogenide polymers" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,623, issued on May 6, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Organically modified chalcogenide polymers" was invented by Darryl A. Boyd (Fort Washington, Md.), Vinh Q. Nguyen (Fairfax, Va.), Nia A. Pollard (Alexandria, Va.), Frederic H. Kung (Alexandria, Va.), Daniel J. Gibson (Cheverly, Md.), Jason D. Myers (Alexandria, Va.), Colin C. Baker (Alexandria, Va.), Woohong Kim (Lorton, Va.) and Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymer comprising one or more chalcogenide elements and one or more crosslinking moieties....